RECENT NEWS

The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has been prosecuted by the HSE after it emerged that its workers may have been exposed to asbestos fibres.

Power management company, Eaton, has launched a new recessed and surface lighting product range featuring fluorescent or LED technology as the main light source.

Cable management specialist, Unitrunk, has supplied the New South Glasgow Hospital with cable ladder, tray, and trunking, as part of the extensive power infrastructure for the showpiece £842 million new hospital.

Bender UK has played a key role in ensuring the authenticity of the operating theatre scenes in the new Sky 1 drama, ‘Critical’, by providing operating theatre equipment used in the hi-tech sets built for the series.

The £160 million new Cancer Centre at London’s Guy’s Hospital, which is due to open at the south London site in 2016, was topped out last month.

From the beginning of this month, all health and care providers will have been required to make arrangements to prominently display their CQC (Care Quality Commission) rating.

A £1.25 bn ‘package’ of additional investment to boost mental healthcare services, the introduction of an Apprenticeship Voucher ‘to put employers in control of the government funding for the training apprentices need’, and a four year, £20 m investment to fund establishment of four pilot ‘Connected Health Cities’ (Leeds/Sheffield, Manchester, Newcastle, and Liverpool), were among measures unveiled in George Osborne’s 2015 Budget on 18 March.

The NHS Confederation has launched an independent commission on urgent care for older people ‘to drive improvements in urgent and emergency care for older people in and outside of hospitals’.

Medirest, part of Compass Group UK & Ireland, has successfully renewed its contract with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health Trust.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to provide £109 m in funding for the construction of a new District and General Hospital in Dumfries.

A recently completed sustainable mixed-used scheme in White City, London, ‘The Bloom’, designed by Penoyre & Prasad for Fulcrum Infrastructure Management and Notting Hill Housing, incorporates a 3,400 m2 primary healthcare and social services facility, retail units, and 170 shared ownership apartments and low-cost market discount apartments.

The health centre has received a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating.

A £1.25 bn ‘package’ of additional investment to boost mental healthcare services, the introduction of an Apprenticeship Voucher ‘to put employers in control of the government funding for the training apprentices need’, and a four-year, £20 m investment to fund establishment of four pilot ‘Connected Health Cities’ (Leeds / Sheffield, Manchester, Newcastle, and Liverpool), were among measures unveiled in George Osborne’s 2015 Budget on 18 March.

The NVTG, the Dutch ‘Association for technical facility healthcare professionals’ has issued a call for entries to its international NVTG Building Award 2016.

Professional body for facilities management, BIFM, has opened delegate bookings for its 2015 ThinkFM conference, to be held on 13 May this year at Kings Place, London, and to again be hosted by Daisy McAndrew, former economics editor for ITV News.

The problem of counterfeit and inferior personal protective equipment (PPE) finding its way into UK workplaces is growing, workplace equipment supplier, Slingsby, maintains.

The growing importance of vocational training, and ‘the perennial debate that continues to surround sustainability, energy efficiency, emissions reduction, and the low-carbon economy’, are among the key focuses in the Building & Engineering Services Association’s (B&ES) recently published Business Manifesto – drawn together in advance of May’s General Election.

Versatile electrical appliance testing technology is helping one of England’s largest hospital NHS Trusts, the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust, maintain ‘the highest standards of safety’ at the Cheltenham General and Gloucestershire Royal Hospitals.

PEL Services has been awarded the fire alarm installation contract for the Lister Hospital, a 620-bed general hospital in Stevenage. Over the past four years, £150 m has been invested in new wards, theatres, and maternity facilities, along with a much expanded emergency department, at the hospital.

BeaconMedæs has launched new semi-automatic and manual manifolds designed to supply piped medical gas where a continuous supply is essential, and where the gas is to be supplied from high pressure gas cylinders.

The operator of the world’s largest mobile operating theatre fleet is targeting expansion in Europe in the wake of the ECB’s plan to inject €1.1 trillion into the Eurozone.